Cannot change console mode during usage of expect

[Marco Atzeri]

On 4/16/2015 2:29 AM, Keith Proctor wrote:
> Interesting...I found the expect executable on disk, double clicked it
> and it opened a window so I typed in my original expect program
> without expect -c and surrounding quotes.  I then ran it and found
> the same errors.  The GetConsoleMode() and SetConsoleMode()
> calls are not being allowed to exit the expect environment.
>
> I'm not sure that the shim will work or not but I'll give it a shot.
>

Hi Keith,
as you are using a not-cygwin program with cygwin expect,
this reading can be useful to understand the issue
and eventually catch a solution

https://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=56

this one seems the most promising tool
https://github.com/rprichard/winpty

Regards
Marco

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